Scott Grosch - Push Notifications by Tutorials

By the raywenderlich Tutorial Team & Scott Grosch

By Scott Grosch

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Scott Grosch is the author of this book. He has been involved with iOS app development since the first release of the public SDK from Apple. He mostly works with a small set of clients on a couple large apps. During the day, Scott is a Solutions Architect at a Fortune 500 company in the Pacific Northwest. At night, he's still working on figuring out how to be a good parent to a toddler with his wife.

Marin Bencevic is the tech editor of this book. He is a computer vision researcher and a Swift developer. He likes to work on cool iOS apps and games, nerd out about programming, learn new things and then blog about it. Mostly, though, he just causes SourceKit crashes. He also has a chubby cat.

Vicki Wenderlich is the designer and artist of the cover of this book. She is Rays wife and business partner. She is a digital artist who creates illustrations, game art and a lot of other art or design work for the tutorials and books on raywenderlich.com. When shes not making art, she loves hiking, a good glass of wine and attempting to create the perfect cheese plate.

"This book is dedicated to my wife and daughter, both of whom gave up many a night so that I could work on it, as well as to my parents who always made sure a good education was a priority."

Scott Grosch

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This section tells you a few things you need to know before you get started, such as what youll need for hardware and software, where to find the project files for this book, and more.

To follow along with this book, youll need the following:

• Xcode 12 and Swift 5: Xcode is the main development tool for writing code in Swift. This book's content was tested with Xcode 12 and SwiftUI. You can download the latest version of Xcode for free from the Mac App Store.

• Apple Developer Program membership: While you can test local push notifications on the simulator, sending remote push notifications requires having the ability to build, sign and run your app on a physical device with a Push Notification certificate a capability reserved for paid members of the Apple Developer Program. The Apple Developer Program annual fee is $99 USD, but the exact amount might change based on local currency. More information on these memberships can be found at https://developer.apple.com/programs/. The information in this book will still prove an invaluable reference and resource to a developer without a paid membership, though.

If you havent installed the latest version of Xcode, be sure to do that before continuing with the book. The code covered in this book requires Swift 5 and Xcode 12 you may get lost if you try to work with an older version.

The only two prerequisites for this book are an intermediate understanding of Swift and iOS development, along with a paid Apple Developer Program membership, if you wish to experiment with delivering remote notifications to devices.

The materials for this book can be cloned or downloaded from the GitHub book materials repository:

• https://github.com/raywenderlich/not-materials/tree/editions/3.0

Weve also set up an official forum for the book at forums.raywenderlich.com. This is a great place to ask questions about the book or to submit any errors you may find.

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